Uncle-Jimmy's who was- died when he was ninety or ninety-one after- just a few years ago and he had a great Lanark-County accent. He had the real thing and- and one of his- "Do you mind the time- do you mind the time when such and such a thing happened?" And ah, and then I heard him use the expression storm-stayed which I'd never heard which I'd read about in the- in Peter-Gzowski.

Speaker: And, you know, I'm sorry to say I don't remember the na-- I don't know my birds anymore. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: But I did when we went to school. Interviewer: Mm-hm, 'cause you would learn it. Speaker: You'd see the bird- "Oh, that's a such-and-such a bird." And you'd hear the- Interviewer: Mm-hm, mm-hm. Speaker:- the call and you'd think, "Oh, I know what that bird is."

There was the odd mud pout and then the spring, there was quite a- we got quite a few sucker out of there in the spring, yeah. And I don't care, they talk about their pickerel and their bass and-all-this but you get a sucker and clean it up well out of that cold water, I think it's just as good.

That's right. And, ah, anyway the- this- w-- we used to spear sucker fish there and bring home, you know, a couple hundred of them (laughs) and we got a- a tr-- a fellow from Tat-- ah, from Tatlock, an Armitage, ah- ah, Johnny and Sammy-Armitage used to come up and, ah- with a tractor and they had a big box on the back of it and we'd go back

Mm, as long as the sucker's good in it, ah, we didn't have to prime it because it would hold the water the same as a- a steel pump,

So he goes to the house and it's an old log house with a summer kitchen on the side wood, eh? Like another addition thing.

Boards on the floor, eh? Everything else is all earth floor. The boards are here to keep you out of the mud in the k-- in the summer kitchen. The door swung in, there's a lady cooking right here on a Findlay oval stove.

Interviewer: So is that- is that like a summer kitchen? Speaker: Summer kitchen, call it a cookhouse. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Speaker: There was an old door.

Ah, with farm vacations and she did that for a quite a few years and she- my sister-in-law, ah, her and my brother, um had fixed up the summer kitchen, the back part of the farm house- ... And they- they made it an apartment and they lived there.

They raised purebred Ayrshire cattle. And the piggery, they- they milked the cows and brought the milk up into the summer kitchen where they would separate it ...

Interviewer: To the summer kitchen? Speaker: There was no summer kitchen. Now, the Wilks family, which would be up by- when I was younger, up by- they

They were, ah- we had a lot more fried pork then anything. The winter it was all fried pork. ... Yeah, that's where it hung, out in the back summer kitchen.

Interviewer: And then would they move the wood stove out in the summer? Into the- Speaker: Ah, there was actually- we didn't move it because there was a stove that stayed in the summer kitchen and one stayed in the (clears throat) in the main house and- but there was ah- Interviewer: So when the weather got warm she'd cook out there in the summer kitchen? Speaker: She- yeah- oh, we just lived in the summer kitchen and that was- you- table went out to the summer kitchen and, ah- ... But every year mother whitewashed the old summer kitchen ...

That was- she liked summer kitchen 'cause then she'd have the- the pump in the water. ... Out in the winter she used to melt snow for wash.

Well, on a Sunday- well, especially at your place, people would always come to visit on Sunday, or we'd all go there for a Sunday dinner, eh? And at that time, it was breakfast, dinner and supper. Because the women mostly stayed at home, they didn't work out, and ah, you had your big meal at noon, because when you farmed, you were hungry by noon, eh? And then supper would just be leftovers or home-made soup or-something I-guess, eh?

And he was- he was walking the field plowing. And he- he come in and he didn't- he didn't feel good and he didn't eat any- anything- din-- dinner time- or supper time, I guess, you called it then. And he died within about a half an hour probably. ... He had a heart attack. A massive coronary heart attack.

Interviewer: And you call it the- the ti-- the meal at lunchtime, at noon was called lunch. Speaker: We called it dinner. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And supper at evening. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: That was those years.

It's every second week. And it's almost like a house party. There's only about five tables. So I go over there when that's on. But we've a nice time. But there's- and- last night I was at- the home support have this ah, ah, supper every- once a month. O-- at the legion. And ah, they provide a very nice supper and they always have some entertainment. So I was at it.

Speaker 2: Supper at the legion? Speaker: Yeah. Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Monday night. Speaker 2: Home support. Speaker: And they used to buy the- the lunch and supper. Interviewer: That's a great idea. Speaker: And then they have an orchestra come in.

Speaker 2: And another couple was sitting there and I said, "Come on, Renee. Come on, we're getting up." So the got up with us. And we danced and everybody clapped and ooo. Speaker: We ate supper, boy. Speaker 2: Yeah.